Lovely photo, as usual. Thank you. It's been overcast here mornings, and storms in the evenings, so a pretty sky is welcome.
As I tossed and turned in the wee hours, trying to get back to sleep, this thought occurred to me:
January 6th probably wouldn't have been possible if we, as a nation, had taught the Civil War truly - that it was a treasonous insurrection, not a glorious fight for 'states rights'. That's the big lie that has allowed so much of what we've seen over the past 20-30 years to metastasize.
And growing up in the South, that is exactly the indoctrination I received all my school years, and of course, outside of school as well. Thankfully, I fell in with people of a different mindset when I left home, and, over time, came to see how the whole Southern structure was one big lie, a lie that was, unfortunately, abetted by a national mindset that, with some exceptions, saw no reason to dispute it.
So many of the issues that plague us now, like gun rights, quite possibly wouldn't have reached this fever pitch without the romanticized fiction of the Glorious Lost Cause.
Sleep well, both of you, with the gratitude of a nation that is better because of who you are and what you do. Thank you, Heather and Buddy!
Lovely photo, as usual. Thank you. It's been overcast here mornings, and storms in the evenings, so a pretty sky is welcome.
As I tossed and turned in the wee hours, trying to get back to sleep, this thought occurred to me:
January 6th probably wouldn't have been possible if we, as a nation, had taught the Civil War truly - that it was a treasonous insurrection, not a glorious fight for 'states rights'. That's the big lie that has allowed so much of what we've seen over the past 20-30 years to metastasize.
And growing up in the South, that is exactly the indoctrination I received all my school years, and of course, outside of school as well. Thankfully, I fell in with people of a different mindset when I left home, and, over time, came to see how the whole Southern structure was one big lie, a lie that was, unfortunately, abetted by a national mindset that, with some exceptions, saw no reason to dispute it.
So many of the issues that plague us now, like gun rights, quite possibly wouldn't have reached this fever pitch without the romanticized fiction of the Glorious Lost Cause.